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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!rpowers
- From: rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers)
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <C0IAMt.ArC@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <19311@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan7.152804.25976@nastar.uucp> <BETSYS.93Jan7125620@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:01:41 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In <BETSYS.93Jan7125620@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
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- [deleted]
- >Exactly, exactly. i wonder if these cheery hypothesizers have ever
- >EXPERIENCED a virus infection on a PC in a work environment? Or
- >discovered that there were altered system files on a multi-user
- >networked machine, which they were being paid to keep secure?
- > There's a very clear line on this group, and in comp.unix.admin,
- >between the paid system maintainers and what I would categorize as the
- >inexperienced users. Anyone who's ever seen a weird message appear on
- [deleted]
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- This "very clear line" exists in your mind. I suggest you go on
- feeling high-and-mighty and trying to shoot down any suggestion of
- anything new and/or innovative which threatens your little world. You
- obviously can't handle it.
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- Richard Powers / Huh? David Letterman is whipping / Apathy.
- rpowers@panix.com / his microphone with a rubber hose. /
- / No, wait! Thats beef jerky! / Hail Eris!
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